So now the Mac App Storehas arrived, what apps should you download first? We’ve been scouting around and here’s our pick of ten apps to start with. We’ve opted for apps that are free or inexpensive. Although there are many significantly more pricey and substantial apps in the store, the ten we’ve listed here are a good place to start with the Mac App Store without shelling out a fortune....

The word ‘pivot’ has become an important part of tech parlance. Switching up your startup’s product and business model when things aren’t going well can be crucial to survival. Here, in no particular order, are ten notable pivots made by some of the best known tech companies today. PayPal PayPalwasn’t always the popular online payment system we know today. It started life as a product created by a company called Confinity in 1999....

Image and face recognition is fast becoming a familiar feature in apps and on websites, potentially making life easier for all of us. It’s not without its controversies too. Here are some of the ways that image recognition is changing the way we use and interact with technology. Easy people tagging Facebook’s automatic tag suggestion feature, which used face recognition to suggest people you might want to tag in your photos, got people hot under the collar earlier this year....

Twitter continues to grow at a massive pace, adding the unbelievable figure of 460,000 new users each day to its database. As many of us increase the number of accounts we follow, it can be quite difficult to see through the clutter. In order to solve this problem a few startups have taken on the challenge to make reading your tweets easy again. With different algorithms and solutions they try to filter out the most valuable Tweets for you....

By now everyone is pretty much in love with Instagram as it continues to get better and better and our need to share photos of basically everything only increases. Who you follow on Instagram, however, can often times greatly impact your experience of the app. In many ways it’s difficult to discover new people to follow on Instagram, at least that will be outside of your usual network on Twitter....